Donald C. Lo

11.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
103 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Donald C. Lo is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology and Developmental Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald C. Lo has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 53 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Developmental Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Donald C. Lo's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (27 papers), Nerve injury and regeneration (22 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (14 papers). Donald C. Lo is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (27 papers), Nerve injury and regeneration (22 papers) and Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (14 papers). Donald C. Lo collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Donald C. Lo's co-authors include A. Kimberley McAllister, Lawrence C Katz, Brent R. Stockwell, Denise Dunn, Talene A. Yacoubian, Kaoru Shimada, Nina Tang Sherwood, Jeremy P. Brockes, Jianlin Wang and Marina Orman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Donald C. Lo

100 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

NEUROTROPHINS AND SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY

1999 1.1k citations A. Kimberley McAllister, Lawrence C Katz et al. profile →
Ferrostatins Inhibit Oxidative Lipid Damage and Cell Death in Diverse Disease Models

2014 872 citations Denise Dunn, Kaoru Shimada et al. profile →
Neurotrophins regulate dendritic growth in developing visual cortex

1995 831 citations A. Kimberley McAllister, Donald C. Lo et al. Neuron profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donald C. Lo United States	40	4.7k	4.1k	2.2k	852	846	103	8.7k
Vladimir Berezin Denmark	53	2.8k 0.6×	4.7k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	316 0.4×	1.5k 1.8×	238	8.4k
Kazuhiro Ikenaka Japan	55	3.2k 0.7×	5.3k 1.3×	3.2k 1.5×	352 0.4×	946 1.1×	251	10.4k
Laurent Nguyen Belgium	53	2.2k 0.5×	4.4k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	290 0.3×	1.1k 1.3×	168	8.8k
Ricardo E. Dolmetsch United States	42	5.0k 1.0×	9.4k 2.3×	850 0.4×	271 0.3×	964 1.1×	69	14.6k
De‐Maw Chuang United States	60	3.7k 0.8×	6.3k 1.5×	875 0.4×	277 0.3×	476 0.6×	140	11.5k
Heng‐Ye Man United States	44	3.9k 0.8×	4.0k 1.0×	463 0.2×	424 0.5×	717 0.8×	107	7.7k
Jay M. Baraban United States	60	7.4k 1.6×	8.4k 2.1×	945 0.4×	335 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	156	14.0k
David Pleasure United States	63	3.8k 0.8×	4.5k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	361 0.4×	705 0.8×	272	11.4k
Seth Blackshaw United States	62	2.8k 0.6×	8.6k 2.1×	1.1k 0.5×	193 0.2×	1.1k 1.3×	213	13.0k
Soren Impey United States	54	5.4k 1.1×	7.0k 1.7×	1.4k 0.6×	228 0.3×	698 0.8×	81	13.1k

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Huang, Ruili, Miao Xu, Hu Zhu, et al.. (2021). Biological activity-based modeling identifies antiviral leads against SARS-CoV-2. Nature Biotechnology. 39(6). 747–753. 34 indexed citations

Zhu, Wei, Zeenat A. Shyr, Donald C. Lo, & Wei Zheng. (2021). Viral Proteases as Targets for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Drug Development. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 378(2). 166–172. 20 indexed citations

Venkatesh, Divya, Fereshteh Zandkarimi, David Tong, et al.. (2020). MDM2 and MDMX promote ferroptosis by PPARα-mediated lipid remodeling. Genes & Development. 34(7-8). 526–543. 216 indexed citations

Shimada, Kaoru, Eduard Reznik, Michael E. Stokes, et al.. (2018). Copper-Binding Small Molecule Induces Oxidative Stress and Cell-Cycle Arrest in Glioblastoma-Patient-Derived Cells. Cell chemical biology. 25(5). 585–594.e7. 84 indexed citations

Khoshnan, Ali, Barbara Calamini, Denise Dunn, et al.. (2017). IKKβ and mutant huntingtin interactions regulate the expression of IL-34: implications for microglial-mediated neurodegeneration in HD. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(21). 4267–4277. 24 indexed citations

Dickey, Audrey S., Weiwei Fan, Nicolas Arbez, et al.. (2017). PPARδ activation by bexarotene promotes neuroprotection by restoring bioenergetic and quality control homeostasis. Science Translational Medicine. 9(419). 47 indexed citations

Shen, Koning, Barbara Calamini, Jonathan A. Fauerbach, et al.. (2016). Control of the structural landscape and neuronal proteotoxicity of mutant Huntingtin by domains flanking the polyQ tract. eLife. 5. 53 indexed citations

Lo, Donald C., et al.. (2015). Differential roles of Aβ processing in hypoxia-induced axonal damage. Neurobiology of Disease. 77. 94–105. 5 indexed citations

Calamini, Barbara, Donald C. Lo, & Linda S. Kaltenbach. (2013). Experimental Models for Identifying Modifiers of Polyglutamine-Induced Aggregation and Neurodegeneration. Neurotherapeutics. 10(3). 400–415. 8 indexed citations

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Kaltenbach, Linda S., et al.. (2012). Targeting mutant huntingtin for the development of disease-modifying therapy. Drug Discovery Today. 17(21-22). 1217–1223. 13 indexed citations

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Dunn, Denise, He Dong, Peiying Yang, et al.. (2011). In vitro and in vivo neuroprotective activity of the cardiac glycoside oleandrin from Nerium oleander in brain slice‐based stroke models. Journal of Neurochemistry. 119(4). 805–814. 50 indexed citations

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Roberts, Adam C., Javier Díez‐García, Ramona M. Rodriguiz, et al.. (2009). Downregulation of NR3A-Containing NMDARs Is Required for Synapse Maturation and Memory Consolidation. Neuron. 63(3). 342–356. 121 indexed citations

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Qiao, Lixin, Sung‐Woon Choi, April Case, et al.. (2009). Structure–activity relationship study of EphB3 receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 19(21). 6122–6126. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, James K. T., Stuart Portbury, Mary Beth Thomas, et al.. (2006). Cardiac glycosides provide neuroprotection against ischemic stroke: Discovery by a brain slice-based compound screening platform. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(27). 10461–10466. 84 indexed citations

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Varma, Hemant, Cindy Voisine, C. Todd DeMarco, et al.. (2006). Selective inhibitors of death in mutant huntingtin cells. Nature Chemical Biology. 3(2). 99–100. 35 indexed citations

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Lo, Donald C., et al.. (2000). Long-term regulation of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic transmission in hippocampal cultures by brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Progress in brain research. 128. 203–218. 36 indexed citations

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Yacoubian, Talene A. & Donald C. Lo. (2000). Truncated and full-length TrkB receptors regulate distinct modes of dendritic growth. Nature Neuroscience. 3(4). 342–349. 242 indexed citations

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McAllister, A. Kimberley, Lawrence C Katz, & Donald C. Lo. (1996). Neurotrophin Regulation of Cortical Dendritic Growth Requires Activity. Neuron. 17(6). 1057–1064. 433 indexed citations

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Lo, Donald C.. (1992). NGF takes shape. Current Biology. 2(2). 67–69. 3 indexed citations

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Lo, Donald C.. (1992). Signal transduction and regulation of neurotrophins. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 2(3). 336–340. 26 indexed citations

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